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Subject:Re: Any Word on Word? From:Dianne Moscrip <dmoscrip -at- PACIFICCOAST -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:02:40 -0700
Forget it! I recently tried to use word to put together a catalog and it
kept crashing. With the version I was using, Word 97, I found I could only
put in around 3 large photos before it started acting up.
there, my $2 worth.
I switched to PageMaker 6.5 and it was a snap.
Dianne Moscrip
At 10:53 PM 10/15/1998 -0400, Al Brown wrote:
>My department is wondering whether to consider using Word 97 instead of
>PageMaker for our major documents. We're being encouraged to do so by our
>translation agencies, who claim we'd save on costs, but the people who
>broker our printing don't want us to, for reasons that they aren't too
>specific about. Our manuals are about 50-100 pages and up, with a
>substantial number of graphics.
>I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with experiences to share--positive
>or negative.
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>Thanks!
>-Al Brown
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"You must do the thing you think you cannot do". Eleanor Roosevelt
